Reading Gregory's Eurydice
Reading Gregory's Eurydice
Wake: it takes the snake
big as a bracelet
to make
the mistake:
to break
open the crate
and create the place:
first intake
sharp haste
laid way
to taste
to make way
for her own OH! KAY!
Birthday
Rich Entel Cardboard Menagerie Birthday It’s heavy to drag, this big sack of what you should have done. And finally you can’t lift it anymore. …You never intended that it should come to this. William Stafford "It’s heavy to drag, this big sack..." Somewhere out in the world there’s a thirty three year old who took you up after you left, who was shocked like your cheek from the combustion of gunpowder breaching your skull and even your jaw, (the heavy pistol slid and you were awake the whole way only to slip first coma then no.) And maybe it wasn’t like you’d planned it, maybe what you’d intended had nothing to do with her and maybe it was instead all the carefully folded clothes you carried from room to room when your sister ran the streets and your mother walked and walked and called down those Lynn alley drain pi...
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